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Governor General's (French) 2010 · Finalist
Maleficium
Maleficium
Martine Desjardins · 52 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Seven men and a woman confess to Father Savoie, a priest in late nineteenth-century Quebec, strange events from their travels in the Orient; unable to keep silent, he commits the sacrilege of writing their confessions down.